calabashes

Davies, a 19th-century British sugar baron, returned four large ceremonial bowls, known as calabashes, he'd bought at auction.

In This Hawaiian Scavenger Hunt, A Princess Seeks Palace Treasures Julia Flynn Siler 2011

CSSDCA shall encompass four major areas henceforth called calabashes: security, stability, development and co-operation.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

Dried garden produce can be stored in covered containers such as calabashes, baskets, pots, cans, or jars.

14. Saving seeds for planting 1991

Gourds, such as calabashes, can be filled with dried foods, covered with cloth, tied tight with string and then dipped in hot wax to seal.

Chapter 7 1982

We had stacks of the large round thin cakes baked on stones which afterwards we called cassava, and great gourds, "calabashes" filled with fruit, and balls of cotton in a rude thread.

1492, 1922

We had stacks of the large round thin cakes baked on stones which afterwards we called cassava, and great gourds, "calabashes" filled with fruit, and balls of cotton in a rude thread.

1492 Mary Johnston 1903

The calabashes were filled with the fierce distillation of the root of the ti-plant; and as the liquid fire coursed through them and mounted to their brains, they forgot that they had once been men and women, for they were men and women once more.

Koolau the Leper 2010

Ever the woman whose sightless eyes ran scalding tears chanted her love-cry, ever the dancers of love danced in the warm night, and ever the calabashes went around till in all their brains were maggots crawling of memory and desire.

Koolau the Leper 2010

But the woman's love-cry broke midway, the calabashes were lowered, and the dancers ceased, as all gazed into the abyss above the sea, where a rocket flared like a wan phantom through the moonlit air.

Koolau the Leper 2010

From one of the rocky lairs calabashes were produced and passed round.

Koolau the Leper 2010